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Category: Health Economics & Costs

Tuesday Links

Posted on September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The Board of Tea Experts, established on March 2, 1897, is finally being mothballed.
  • Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits —typically against small hotels — and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with the federal disabilities law. Will the Supreme Court shut her down?
  • Yglesias: Loneliness isn’t aloneness. And contra Nicholas Kristof, it is highly correlated with low incomes.
  • Tyler Cowen: ten ideas on reducing the number of single parent families.
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Monday Links

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Health gains from key prescription drugs.
  • Steve Henke, et. al., skewer a new Royal Society report on Covid-19.
  • Health Affairs study:  employers lack leverage to negotiate lower prices. Have they never heard of reference pricing?
  • CDC: we are losing the battle against obesity. I thought we lost it a long time ago.
  • Inequities at the doctors office: is it because the patients don’t speak up for themselves?
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Saturday Links

Posted on September 23, 2023September 23, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Patience is correlated with more success in school.
  • “Aspirations cannot become law.” Sen. Bill Cassidy on Bernie Sanders’ latest health care proposal.
  • Peter Nelson: How to make price transparency better.
  • Is a female takeover of elite occupations taking place?
  • Penn Wharton model: The federal government’s unfunded liability is $244.8 billion.
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Hospital Online Price Estimators Don’t Match Phone Quotes

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Hospitals make it notoriously difficult to know the price prior to a service. Prices are hard to obtain and often meaningless when disclosed. Indeed, there isn’t one price but many prices depending upon who the payer is. There is a different price for BlueCross, Aetna, Cigna and most other health plans. There is the chargemaster…

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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

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